I'm uncertain what Linux distro they were using before but today's release of version 0.9.8.1 is free to use on Intel Atom based systems. It would be nice if they distributed an image that doesn't require Windows to install but their target market appears to be Windows devices that include Slashtop OS as an alternate boot option in order to get online faster.

With the ability to suspend and resume, plus the fact that most modern oses boot pretty fast (I mean seriously, what's 15 seconds) I still don't see the point of Splashtop. I no sooner fire up Splashtop then try to browse a web page and find out that it won't render properly, or that I can't view that video, or that I need to edit a document... at which point, I just have to fire up my main os anyway. Device manufacturers need to get smart about this. If they want faster boot times, that's great. Achieving them with a slimmed down os that becomes useless with the slightest push is not the way to do it, however.

Your optimized properly handled PC may boot in 15 sec, but average, fragmented antivirus ridden windows machine rarely will. Add a cost of logging in, starting all "indispensable" services , and then firefox to that and you have a different story.

As for suspend, you usually catch yourself needing that quick access to WEB when the computer have been shut down or ran out of a battery yesterday.

You'd be surprised. I'm talking about Windows 7 Ultimate when I say that my netbook has a 15 second boot time. I haven't even done much optimization, though I did start out by wiping the disk and putting a fresh installation on it. If I can get it to do this with very little optimization, imagine what the OEMs could achieve if they wanted to. As for suspend/resume, I never shut the thing down. I suspend it and, if left that way for over two hours while on battery, it will hibernate itself (I didn't even do anything to configure that). The machine also hibernates once the battery reaches 10%. So, no dead batteries, yet a machine that's ready to use within 5 seconds of hibernate. With a setup like this, why bother with Splashtop? Imagine what we could have if the OEMs got smart... not that they'll ever do that, of course.

I don't have a virus ridden Windows Machine, but boot up times well over 45seconds because I am running 4 Databases and Sharepoint as well as the usual gumpth starting up such as dropbox, spotify, last.fm, winamp and a few others.

I no sooner fire up Splashtop then try to browse a web page and find out that it won't render properly, or that I can't view that video, or that I need to edit a document... at which point, I just have to fire up my main os anyway. Device manufacturers need to get smart about this.

The idea behind MeeGo is that it's up to systems integrators to license codecs, non-free applications, etc. So if these don't function as you would hope then you might want to pass your feedback along to Splashtop, Inc. I've actually found that the MeeGo netbook distribution by itself comes with a pretty slim base install and even the package repository doesn't have everything I might use on a regular basis. For example, I had to compile rdesktop which is GPL licensed but I couldn't guess as to why it's not in the package repo. Getting a fully functional dev environment takes a bit of work as well...